One of the most important criteria in classifying investment projects is economic dependence between new and existing projects. Economic dependence causes the neccessity of specific information in decision making process. The prerequisite of shaping incremental effects projections is to take...

Focus of interest in this paper is the concept of competitiveness as measured by the originally developed index of business environment. Competitiveness is interpreted in the broader meaning of the term: it includes not only cost conditions, but also institutional and system conditions of...

Crises in Thailand, South Korea, Mexico or Marshall Plan are all examples of different forms of financial crises that the world has been exposed to over the decades. At the same time an extensive flow of financial aid is also evident. The problem posed in this paper is whether the financial...

The current volume reproduces papers presented in the Workshop which was organized in Athens, in February 2010 by the European Public Law Organization (EPLO) and the Faculty of Public Administration – National School of Political Studies and Public Administration (NSPSPA), Bucharest. The...

Since the conceptual framework of the European Administrative Space (EAS) in 1990s, at least two convergent trends may be found out. The first trend refers to EAS operationalisation as instrument and mechanism for assessing the reforms of the national public administrations. Herewith, we refer...

Local government, as administrative units, performs a broad range of services that require to establish relations with outside partners, including those belonging to the private sector. Public procurement, due to the size of the involved financial flows, is government activity especially exposed...

The issue on whether foreign owners bring prosperity to individual firms and to society is highly debated in Croatia. It arises especially at times when there is a sell-out of a larger Croatian company to a foreign business group. In this paper we study the influence of ownership structures on...

In this paper we review recent developments concerning ESOPs and present some theoretical framework for reviewing three diverging propositions for institutionalizing ESOPs in Croatia. The issues to be discussed involve rationales for ESOPs (how do ESOPs benefit employees, companies and the...

The paper reports on an exploratory study, run as part of a broader research of international competitiveness of Croatian firms. It provides some tentative observations on the relationship of firm size to industrial dynamics and national competitiveness.By observing changes in average firm size...

This research aims at gaining a better understanding of the interconnectedness between organizational structuring and the contemporary (changing) business environments. In the paper we address the notion of "strategic fit" and try to observe to what extent this perception affects organizational...